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Algorithm Controls
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361
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Recycling: An Opaque Industry, with Areeb Malik
Abate De Mey
10 Oct 2022
Areeb, the co-founder of Glacier, gives some insight into the opaque recycling industry, and why it is unable to handle the volume of recyclable good Americans through out each year.
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359
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Perception and Decision-Making for Underwater Robots, with Brendan Englot
Lilly Clark
21 Aug 2022
Prof Brendan Englot, from Stevens Institute of Technology, discusses the challenges in perception and decision making for underwater robots - especially in the field.
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356
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Controlling a Drone After Sudden Rotor Failure #ICRA2022, with Sihao Sun
Abate De Mey
06 Jun 2022
Dr. Sihao Sun on his research for controlling a quadcopter after one of its rotors faces a sudden failure. His research takes in real-world assumptions where the quadcopter may already be in a compromised, difficult to correct orientation.
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351
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Duckietown Competition Spotlight, with Dr Liam Paull
Abate De Mey
17 May 2022
Dr. Liam Paull, cofounder of the Duckietown competition talks about the only robotics competition where Rubber Duckies are the passengers on an autonomous driving track.
Tim Chung: DARPA Subterranean Challenge | Sense Think Act Podcast #14
Audrow Nash and Sense Think Act Podcast
24 Feb 2022
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks to Tim Chung, Program Manager in the Tactical Technology Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), on the DARPA Subterranean (SubT) Challenge...
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340
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NVIDIA and ROS Teaming Up To Accelerate Robotics Development, with Amit Goel
Abate De Mey
23 Oct 2021
Amit Goel, Director of Product Management for Autonomous Machines at NVIDIA, discusses the new collaboration between Open Robotics and NVIDIA. The collaboration will dramatically improve the way ROS and NVIDIA's line of products such as Isaac SIM and the Jetson line of embedded boards operate together.
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336
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Mobile Outdoor Manipulation with RE2 Robotics, with Travis Schneider
Shihan Lu
04 Aug 2021
Robohub Podcast · Mobile Outdoor Manipulation with RE2 Robotics
In this episode, Shihan Lu interviews Travis Schneider, Business Development Manager at RE2 Robotics, focusing on their work on mobi...
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323
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Multisensory Perception, with Jivko Sinapov
Shihan Lu
15 Nov 2020
Robohub Podcast · Multisensory Perception
In this episode, Shihan Lu interviews Jivko Sinapov, Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Tufts University, about his work on beh...
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316
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Introspective Robots, with Nathan Michael
Lilly Clark
09 Aug 2020
Robohub Podcast · Introspective Robots
In this episode, Lilly interviews Nathan Michael, Professor and Director of the Resilient Intelligent Systems Lab at the Robotics Institute within Carnegie M...
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312
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Safe Motion Planning in Real-time, with Luca Colasanto
Kate Zhou
19 Jun 2020
Robohub Podcast · Safe Motion Planning in Real-time
In this episode, we hear from Luca Colasanto, Senior Robotic Scientist at Realtime Robotics, about real-time robot motion planning in dynamic an...
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304
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Haptics and Virtual Interactions, with Heather Culbertson
Shihan Lu
17 Feb 2020
In this episode, Shihan Lu interviews Dr. Heather Culbertson, Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Southern California, about her work in haptics. Dr. Culbertson...
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289
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On Design in Human-Robot Interaction, with Bilge Mutlu
Audrow Nash
24 Jun 2019
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Bilge Mutlu, Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, about design-thinking in human-robot interaction. Professor Mutlu discusses design-th...
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279
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Safe Robot Learning on Hardware, with Jaime Fernández Fisac
Audrow Nash
04 Feb 2019
In this interview, Audrow Nash interviews Jaime Fernández Fisac, a PhD student at University of California, Berkeley, working with Professors Shankar Sastry, Claire Tomlin, and Anca Dragan. Fisac is ...
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277
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Presented work at IROS 2018 (Part 3 of 3), with Pauline Pounds, Philippe Morere and Yujung Liu
Audrow Nash
09 Jan 2019
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Pauline Pound, Philippe Morere, and Yujung Liu about the work they presented at the 2018 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) in ...
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276
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IROS 2018 Exhibition (Part 2 of 3), with Kristoffer Richardsson, Michael Zillich and Paulo Alvito
Audrow Nash
27 Dec 2018
In this interview, Audrow Nash interviews Kristoffer Richardsson, Michael Zillich, and Paulo Alvito....
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273
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Presented work at IROS 2018 (Part 1 of 3), with Alexandros Kogkas, Katie Driggs-Campbell and Martin Karlsson
Audrow Nash
12 Nov 2018
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Alexandros Kogkas, Katie Driggs-Campbell, and Martin Karlsson about the work they presented at the 2018 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and S...
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268
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Robotarium: A Robotics Lab Accessible to All, with Magnus Egerstedt
Audrow Nash
02 Sep 2018
In this episode, Audrow Nash interview Magnus Egerstedt, Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, about a way for anyone interested in swarm robotics to test their ideas on hardware, called...
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263
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ICRA 2018 Exhibition, with Juxi Leitner, Nicholas Panitz, Ben Wilson and James Brett
Audrow Nash
23 Jun 2018
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Juxi Leitner, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at QUT; and Nicholas Panitz, Ben Wilson, and James Brett, from CSIRO.
Leitner speaks about the Amazon Pickin...
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257
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Learning Robot Objectives from Physical Human Interaction, with Andrea Bajcsy and Dylan P. Losey
Audrow Nash
31 Mar 2018
In this interview, Audrow speaks with Andrea Bajcsy and Dylan P. Losey about a method that allows robots to infer a human’s objective through physical interaction. They discuss their approach, the c...
Indoor drone shows are here
Markus Waibel
09 Jan 2018
2017 was the year where indoor drone shows came into their own. Verity Studios' Lucie drones alone completed more than 20,000 autonomous flights. A Synthetic Swarm of 99 Lucie micro drones started t...
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250
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Learning Prosthesis Control Parameters, with Helen Huang
Audrow Nash
24 Dec 2017
In this interview, Audrow Nash interviews Helen Huang, Joint Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State, about a method of tuning powered lower limb prosthes...
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249
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ICRA 2017 Company Showcase, with Howard Michel, Li Bingbing, Xianbao Chen and Lester Teh Chee Onn
Audrow Nash
10 Dec 2017
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews several companies at the International Conference for Robotics and Automation (ICRA). ICRA is the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society’s biggest conference an...
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243
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Disney Robotics, with Katsu Yamane
Audrow Nash
17 Sep 2017
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Katsu Yamane, Senior Research Scientist at Disney, about robotics in Disney. Yamane discusses Disney’s history with robots, how Disney currently uses Robots, ...
Reshaping computer-aided design
MIT News
24 Jul 2017
Almost every object we use is developed with computer-aided design (CAD). Ironically, while CAD programs are good for creating designs, using them is actually very difficult and time-consuming if you...
Asimov’s Laws won’t stop robots harming humans so we’ve developed a better solution
The Conversation
17 Jul 2017
By Christoph Salge, Marie Curie Global Fellow, University of Hertfordshire
How do you stop a robot from hurting people? Many existing robots, such as those assembling cars in factories, shut down ...
The Robot Academy: Lessons in inverse kinematics and robot motion
Peter Corke
30 Jun 2017
The Robot Academy is a new learning resource from Professor Peter Corke and the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), the team behind the award-winning Introduction to Robotics and Robotic Visio...
Using MATLAB for hardware-in-the-loop prototyping #1 : Message passing systems
Florian Enner
28 Jun 2017
MATLAB© is a programming language and environment designed for scientific computing. It is one of the best languages for developing robot control algorithms and is widely used in the research communi...
Helping or hacking? Engineers and ethicists must work together on brain-computer interface technology
The Conversation
22 Jun 2017
A subject plays a computer game as part of a neural security experiment at the University of Washington.
Patrick Bennett, CC BY-ND
By Eran Klein, University of Washington and Katherine Pratt, Unive...
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236
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IASP 2016: Prostheses and Finding Shoes, with Vadim Kotenev and Vagan Martirosyan
Audrow Nash and Christina Brester
09 Jun 2017
In this episode, Audrow Nash and Christina Brester conduct interviews at the 2016 International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation conference in Moscow, Russia. They speak with Vadim...
Teaching ROS quickly to students
Ricardo Téllez
09 Jun 2017
Lecturer Steffen Pfiffner of University of Weingarten in Germany is teaching ROS to 26 students at the same time at a very fast pace. His students, all of them within the Master on Computer Science of...
To err is algorithm: Algorithm fallibility and economic organisation
Juan Mateos-Garcia
18 May 2017
Algorithmic fails
Dig below the surface of some of today’s biggest tech controversies and you are likely to find an algorithm misfiring:[1]
YouTube advertising controversy: The algorithm place...
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234
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Trik Embedded Platform, with Roman Luchin
Audrow Nash and Christina Brester
13 May 2017
In this episode, Audrow Nash and Christina Brester conduct interviews at the 2016 International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation conference in Moscow, Russia. They speak with Roman...
Teaching robots to teach other robots
CSAIL MIT
10 May 2017
Most robots are programmed using one of two methods: learning from demonstration, in which they watch a task being done and then replicate it, or via motion-planning techniques like optimization or sa...
Smart Grasping System available on ROS Development Studio
Ruben Alves
10 May 2017
Would you like to make a robot to grasp something, but you think that is impossible to you just because you can’t buy a robot arm? I’m here to tell that you can definitely achieve this without buy...
Programming your NAO robot for human interaction
Philip English
09 May 2017
Today we are looking at how to program your NAO Robot for Human Interaction. Watch the video and follow the steps below to get interactive with your robot pal!
[embed]https://youtu.be/fT8rNQEs-_w[/...
Machine Learning with OpenAI Gym on ROS Development Studio
Ricardo Téllez
08 May 2017
Imagine how easy it would be to learn skating, if only it doesn’t hurt everytime you fall. Unfortunately, we, humans, don’t have that option. Robots, however, can now “learn” their skills o...
